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A Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
$26.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
An epic chess match on a transatlantic liner unearths a story of persecution and obsession. One of the most perfectly gripping novellas from a master of the form, Stefan Zweig. Chess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertai ...Show more
A Nail, a Rose by Madeleine Bourdouxhe; Faith Evans (Translator)
$10.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Pushkin Collection
Enchanting stories of women's inner lives by the rediscovered Belgian author Madeleine Bourdouxhe The seven stories in A Nail, A Rose confirm Madeleine Bourdouxhe's status as an under-appreciated master of the form. Like her critically lauded novels Marie and La Femme de Giles, these stories tunnel ...Show more
A Tale Without a Name (Pushkin Collection) by Penelope Delta
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Pushkin Collection
An enchanting, powerful fable as timely today as on first publication a century ago
An Evening with Claire by Gaito Gazdanov
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Pushkin Collection
The lyrical first novel of youth and love by acclaimed modernist master Gaito Gazdanov, author of The Spectre of Alexander Wolf.
Isolde by Irena Odoevtseva; Brian Karetnyk (Translator); Irina Steinberg (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Pushkin Collection
The first English translation of a pioneering Russian writer: a hypnotically dark classic of love, deceit and wayward youth in Paris Left to her own devices in Biarritz, fourteen-year-old Russian Liza meets an older English boy, Cromwell, on a beach. He thinks he has found a magical, romantic beauty ...Show more
Poems to Night by Rainer Maria Rilke; Will Stone (Translator)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Pushkin Collection
A collection of haunting mystical poems of the night by the great Rainer Maria Rilke - most of which have never before been translated into English.
Surrender To Night (Pushkin Collection): Collected Poems of Georg Trakl by Georg Trakl
$27.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Pushkin Collection
A new translation by acclaimed poet Will Stone of the visionary Austrian poet Georg Trakl In Georg Trakl's brief, tragic life he produced a body of work of intense visual power. Dense, imagistic and full of unnerving symbolism, his poems occupy a critical place in German Expressionism. Until his death ...Show more
The Art of the City : Rome, Florence, Venice by Georg Simmel; Will Stone (Translator)
$21.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Pushkin Collection
A quartet of essays on great European cities from the groundbreaking thinker Georg Simmel These brilliant essays, from one of Germany's greatest and most influential thinkers, are beautifully written and highly readable portraits of three Italian cities: Rome, Venice and Florence. Simmel saw the cit ...Show more
The Boy Who Stole Attila's Horse by Ivan Repila
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Pushkin Collection
'It looks impossible to get out,' he says. And also: 'But we'll get out.' Two brothers, Big and Small, are trapped at the bottom of a well. They have no food and little chance of rescue. Only the tempting spectre of insanity offers a way out. As Small's wits fail, Big formulates a desperate plan. With t ...Show more
The Cake Tree in the Ruins by Akiyuki Nosaka; Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Pushkin Collection
Intensely moving stories that tell of the absurd violence of war, and tenderly depict the animals and children caught in its vortex. In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka watched the Allied firebombing of Kobe kill his adoptive parents, and then witnessed his sister starving to death. The shocking and blisteringly m ...Show more
The Evenings by Gerard Reve; Sam Garrett (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Pushkin Collection
THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF A POSTWAR MASTERPIECE 'I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.' Twenty-three-year-old Frits - office worker, daydreamer, teller of inappropriate jokes - finds life absurd and inexplicable. ...Show more
The Last and the First by Nina Berberova
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Pushkin Collection
The first English translation of celebrated Russian writer Nina Berberova's debut novel: an intense story of family conflict.